September 16 is the date to celebrate Benghazi as the capital of culture in the Islamic world

Tripoli, September 7, 2023 (LANA) – The High Committee for Celebrating Benghazi as the Capital of Culture in the Islamic World announced, on Thursday, that September 16 will be the date for the launch of programs celebrating Benghazi as the capital of culture in the Islamic world.

The head of the High Committee for the Celebration, Ibrahim Hadiya, said in a press conference, regarding the latest developments and the ongoing arrangements for the celebration of Benghazi, the capital of Islamic culture, that the celebrations will be launched in conjunction with the anniversary of the "Martyr's Day", the day of the martyrdom of the Sheikh of the Martyrs, Omar Al-Mukhtar, and will continue until the end of April 2024.

Hadiya revealed that the committee contracted to implement the opening day with the Media Group Company through the Benghazi Reconstruction and Stabilization Committee, stressing that the opening ceremony will impress everyone and will be a surprise to all Libyans who are jealous of their homeland and who are united by the word culture, literature and poetry.

The head of the High Committee for the celebration of Benghazi, the capital of culture in the Islamic world, said that the festive programs will include 80 cultural, scientific and artistic events, ranging from seminars, workshops, scientific conferences, cultural lectures, and festivals of theater, music and various plastic arts.

He pointed out that the committee worked over the past months continuously, day and night, to organize and launch this ceremony, and all the other programs that it will include, which will extend over a whole year, despite all the obstacles that were facilitated to reach an announcement of the opening day, expressing his thanks to all the parties that provided support for the establishment Celebration.

The Chairman of the Committee noted that the official sponsor of the programs of the Capitals of Culture in the Islamic World is the Organization for Culture and Science in the Islamic World (ICECO), and the local sponsor for it in Libya is the National Committee for Education, Culture and Science.

Hadiya pointed out that the decision to form the celebration committee was issued last February by the National Committee for Education, Culture and Science, the local sponsor of the celebration, and included more than 25 personalities who head media institutions, activists, and those interested in cultural affairs and various types of knowledge.

It is noteworthy that the celebration of the capitals of culture in the Islamic world was approved at the Third Conference of Ministers of Culture in the Islamic World in 2001, and Tripoli was chosen in 2009 as the capital of culture in the Islamic world, and Benghazi in 2022, and it was postponed due to the repercussions of the Corona virus to this year.

  ..(LANA)..